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Virgin Hyperloop One is Coming To India (cnet.com)
Hyperloop is coming to India. From a report: The western-central Indian state of Maharashta plans to build a Virgin Hyperloop track between Pune and Mumbai, British entrepreneur and Virgin boss Richard Branson announced on Monday in a blog post. Virgin Hyperloop One will start by building a demo track, with the aim of eventually supporting 150 million passenger trips per year. It should reduce the 2.5-hour car journey or 3-hour train journey between the two cities to just 25 minutes, and will also stop off at Mumbai airport.
How are they going to have all those people hanging off the outside of the train in the vacuum?
All progress involves some failures. America used to accept failures. Today we avoid progress.
...that the first catastrophic failure will happen somewhere else
Since when has a catastrophic failure stood in the way of capitalistic greed?
How well does non-capitalism do with respect to catastrophic failure of things, if they even ever get built?
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Why does everything have to be about Trump with you libs?
You are welcome on my lawn.
The Soviet Union fell apart, both China and Vietnam implemented reforms that brought market economies into play, and Venezuela is on the brink of civil war. I'd have to say that from current and historical evidence, that non-market economies based around central planning, nationalization of industries, or other communist policies tend to perform poorly.
Mumbai and Pune are 161km apart. A regular euro style high speed train could make it in half an hour.
It would mean upgrading the track, adding electrification and controlling how the track is accessed / crossed, but it seems cheaper than building and maintaining an evacuated tube and the regular train could carry far more people and goods.
Nullius in verba